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deckle

/dek'l/ [from dec- and nybble; the original
spelling seems to have been `decle'] n. Two nickles;
10 bits. Reported among developers for Mattel's GI 1600 (the
Intellivision games processor), a chip with 16-bit-wide RAM but
10-bit-wide ROM.